Chicago Harris Public Policy Lecture Series - Chicago

Chicago Lakeside Panel

Kathleen Cagney, MPP ’90
Director, Population Research Center, NORC & University of Chicago; Associate Professor, Departments of Sociology & Health Studies
 
Charlie Catlett
Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Lab; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute of Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago
 
Douglas Voigt
Director of Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
 
Moderated by
Colm O’Muircheartaigh
Dean and Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

Chicago Lakeside is a proposed redevelopment of the former U.S. Steel SouthWorks site, located 10 miles south of downtown Chicago on the lakefront, adjacent to South Shore neighborhoods. Approximately the size of the Chicago Loop, this area has been vacant since 1992 when U.S. Steel closed the steel mill that had operated there for over 90 years. McCaffery Interests and U.S. Steel have formed a joint venture to explore developing the site with a mix of housing, retail and commercial space, education facilities, parks, bike paths.
 
Partners from the University of Chicago are engaged in conversation about the project, which will take an estimated 25–45 years to complete and more than $4 billion in private and public funding. Designing a large-scale community from the ground up provides a unique laboratory to explore the social science impacts of development and an opportunity to design a more efficient and sustainable model of urban living.
 
Join panelists who have been involved in the project for an overview of Chicago Lakeside and an examination of the social and policy questions a large-scale redevelopment effort raise.